Ethereum Prototype Scales Back Rollup Computing Burden by 90%

A new Ethereum prototype has shown promising results in reducing the computing burden of its growing rollup ecosystem. The reduced design, proposed by researcher Csaba Kiraly, assigns blob-recovery duties among nodes and reported an 11-18x reduction in estimated reconstruction computing work across 1,000-node simulations.

The simulation tested a configuration with four blobs, 10% supernodes, and no columns withheld. The results showed that the estimated network-wide reconstruction cost fell from 48.6 CPU-seconds under the PeerDAS model to 2.75 CPU-seconds under the reduced design.

The prototype is seen as a possible first step toward RowDAS, which would add another recovery route by introducing row channels. However, the reduced design retains today's dependence on high-custody nodes and cannot provide additional resilience.